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Modernism… will we ever start living in modern houses again?

One of the things that we wanted to do when we started this blog was to review house plans. The problem with that is it’s so easy to find bad ones, this would be an endless parade of bad plan after bad plan. We were also hoping to get some suggestions…people submit plans, along with [...]

The most interesting thing about this topic to me is that most people have the belief that they cannot afford anything other than the standard builder type houses. Or that somehow, these are the most efficient and economically suitable residences. Or even that well designed custom homes are out of their league. I have been [...]

Since brevity is the soul of wit, I won’t bother trying to be witty! We recently had a contractor in our office on a marketing mission. You know, trying to sell himself so that we will refer work to him. In the midst of the conversation, I asked him what he thought of my partner’s [...]

A couple of months ago, we moved in to our new house. This blog was going to chronicle that process…but like most best laid plans, it didn’t happen. It did get chronicled at a different site, the Mäkilehto site. The construction occurred over the winter and into spring.